The Tattoo Encyclopedia

Author : Terisa Green
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781471108617

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The Tattoo Encyclopedia by Terisa Green Pdf

Tattoos have moved into the mainstream and are continuing to grow in popularity. For people contemplating getting a tattoo, however, the choice of images can be overwhelming. THE TATTOO ENCYCLOPEDIA provides a comprehensive and informative exploration of the colourful world of tattoos. It presents precise descriptions of both common and unusual symbols and sheds light on their historic, religious and cultural significance. Organised in a convenient A-Z format, cross-referenced, indexed and illustrated with 300 pieces of authentic tattoo line art, the book features a stunning array of images from ancient Buddhist and Chinese designs to those sported by twenty-first century bikers. Whether choosing a personally significant tattoo, wanting to learn more about a symbol, or simply interested in tattoos as a form of art and body decoration, readers will discover the richness of tattoo culture in this treasury.

Author : Dant︠s︡ik Sergeevich Baldaev
Publisher : Fuel Publishing
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015082748818

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Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia by Dant︠s︡ik Sergeevich Baldaev Pdf

For more than 30 years Danzig Baldayev was a prison warder in Kresty prison in St Petersburg. He collected more than 3000 images of Russian criminals' tattoos. These form the backbone to this encyclopedia that explores one of the world's more unusual art forms.

Author : Paul Dobleman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Art
ISBN : 8897845274

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Paul Dobleman. My Traditional Vision. Ediz. Illustrata by Paul Dobleman Pdf

Author : Radomir Fiksa
Publisher : Radomír Fiksa
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Tribal Tattoo Encyclopedia by Radomir Fiksa Pdf

The Tattoo Encyclopedia provides the first comprehensive overview of tribal tattooing across history, continents, and ethnicities. Each group, clan, or community that practiced tattooing had its own places where people prepared for tattooing or where tattooing was performed. Tattoo sessions were accompanied by music, songs, or other rituals. They had tattoo artists and their assistants. Of course, they used various tattoo tools to carry and apply the designs. Last but not least, they also used different ingredients to obtain the inks for the tattoos. For all this, the different communities had their own names and terms, in their own language or dialect, and it is these terms, including descriptions, often already lost in history, that this book presents.

Author : Radomir Fiksa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8087525787

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Tribal Tattoo Encyclopedia by Radomir Fiksa Pdf

Author : Henk Schiffmacher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Tattoo artists
ISBN : 9048803187

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Encyclopedia for the Art and History of Tattooing by Henk Schiffmacher Pdf

Summary: This is the magnum opus by one of the world|s best known tattoo artists, Henk Schiffmacher, also known as Hanky Panky. Following the massive success of the Dutch edition in the fall of 2008, we now set out to publish the English edition. The Tattoo Encyclopedia is a big, full-colour illustrated history of tattooing, filled with unique pictures of tattoos, artifacts and drawings that Schiffmacher has collected during his travels.These illustrations are accompanied by anecdotes and information on key historical events and figures in tattooing. This phenomenal from A to Z-encyclopedia will ensure that tattooing is finally accepted as a serious art form.

Author : Arkady Bronnikov,Stephen Sorrell
Publisher : Fuel Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 0956896294

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Russian Criminal Tattoo by Arkady Bronnikov,Stephen Sorrell Pdf

This book features over 180 photographs and accompanying texts of Russian criminal tattoos from the Arkady Bronnikov collection. From the mid-1960s to the late- 1980s Bronnikov worked as a senior expert in criminalistics at the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs, part of his duties involved visiting correctional institutions of the Ural and Siberia regions. It was here that he interviewed, gathered information and took photographs of convicts and their tattoos, building one of the most comprehensive archives of this phenomenon. He regularly helped to solve criminal cases across Russia by using his collection of tattoos to identify culprits and corpses. The Bronnikov collection was made exclusively for police use, to further the understanding of the language of these tattoos and to act as an aid in the identification and apprehension of criminals in the field. Unimpeded by artistry, these vernacular photographs present a guileless representation of criminal society. Every image discloses evidence of an inmate's character: aggressive, vulnerable, melancholic, conceited. Their bodies display an unofficial history, told not just through tattoos, but also in scars and missing digits. Closer inspection only confirms our inability to comprehend the unimaginable lives of this previously unacknowledged caste.

Author : Alix Lambert,Mary Christ
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : 0764317644

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Russian Prison Tattoos by Alix Lambert,Mary Christ Pdf

For centuries, Russian prison inmates forcibly initiated newcomers with tattoos. Gradually, prisoners developed a secret form of communication with their tattoos, allowing them to establish rank among the other inmates and maintain a clandestine hierarchy. This book explores the grisly reality of Russian prisons and the people who inhabit them. Over 190 black and white and color photographs expose the different tattoos and their meanings, ranging from churches, crosses, Christs, Madonnas, military symbols, cats, dolphins, bears, hawks, and other startling images. Documentary filmmaker Alix Lambert traveled around modern Russia to film these sinister environments, collected stories to identify the dying art of tattooing in Russian prisons, and detailed the lives of the heavily marked inmates, past and present. This fascinating, spine-tingling book provides an entirely new outlook on tattoos and what they can represent!

Author : James Martell,Erik Larsen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030865665

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Tattooed Bodies by James Martell,Erik Larsen Pdf

The essays collected in Tattooed Bodies draw on a range of theoretical paradigms and empirical knowledge to investigate tattoos, tattooing, and our complex relations with marks on skin. Engaging with diverse disciplinary perspectives in art history, continental philosophy, media studies, psychoanalysis, critical theory, literary studies, biopolitics, and cultural anthropology, the volume reflects the sheer diversity of meanings attributed to tattoos throughout history and across cultures. Essays explore conceptualizations of tattoos and tattooing in Derrida, Deleuze and Guattari, Lacan, Agamben, and Jean-Luc Nancy, while utilizing theoretical perspectives to interpret tattoos in literary works by Melville, Beckett, Kafka, Genet, and Jeff VanderMeer, among others. Tattooed Bodies prompts readers to explore a few significant questions: Are tattoos unique phenomena or an art medium in need of special theoretical exploration? If so, what conceptual paradigms and theories might best shape our understanding of tattoos and their complex ubiquity in world cultures and histories?

Author : Margo DeMello
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313336959

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Encyclopedia of Body Adornment by Margo DeMello Pdf

Alphabetically arranged entries discuss forms of body modification or adornment found throughout history and around the world, including background information and the theoretical, social, ethical, and legal issues surrounding each practice.

Author : Margo DeMello
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : 0822324679

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Bodies of Inscription by Margo DeMello Pdf

An ethnography of the tattoo community, tracing the practice's transformation from a mostly male, working-class phenomenon to one adapted and propagated by a more middle-class movement in the period from the 1970s to the present.

Author : Elena Gorokhova
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781451689846

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Russian Tattoo by Elena Gorokhova Pdf

Finalist for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing From the bestselling author of A Mountain of Crumbs, a “brilliant and illuminating” (BookPage) portrait of mothers and daughters that reaches from Cold War Russia to modern-day New Jersey to show how the ties that hold you back can also teach you how to start over. Elena Gorokhova moves to the US in her twenties to join her American husband and to break away from her mother, a mirror image of her Soviet Motherland: overbearing, protective, and difficult to leave. Before the birth of Elena’s daughter, her mother comes to help care for the baby and stays for twenty-four years, ordering everyone to eat soup and wear a hat, just as she did in Leningrad. Russian Tattoo is the story of a unique balancing act and a family struggle: three generations of strong women with very different cultural values, all living under the same roof and battling for control. As Elena strives to bridge the gap between the cultures of her past and present and find her place in a new world, she comes to love the fierce resilience of her Soviet mother when she recognizes it in her American daughter. “Gorokhova writes about her life with a novelist’s gift,” says The New York Times, and her second memoir is filled with empathy, insight, and humor.

Author : Anna Felicity Friedman,James Elkins
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300210484

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The World Atlas of Tattoo by Anna Felicity Friedman,James Elkins Pdf

"A grand tour of the world's great tattoos"--Atlas Obscura "This book--part global art historical tome, part coffee-table book of visual wonders--is a valuable corrective to many silly things that we assume about tattooing."--The New Republic A lavishly illustrated global exploration of the vast array of styles and most significant practitioners of tattoo from ancient times to today Tattoo art and practice has seen radical changes in the 21st century, as its popularity has exploded. An expanding number of tattoo artists have been mining the past for lost traditions and innovating with new technology. An enormous diversity of styles, genres, and techniques has emerged, ranging from geometric blackwork to vibrant, painterly styles, and from hand-tattooed works to machine-produced designs. With over 700 stunning color illustrations, this volume considers historical and contemporary tattoo practices in Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, North and Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Australia, and the Pacific Islands. Each section, dedicated to a specific geographic region, features fascinating text by tattoo experts that explores the history and traditions native to that area as well as current styles and trends. The World Atlas of Tattoo also tracks the movement of styles from their indigenous settings to diasporic communities, where they have often been transformed into creative, multicultural, hybrid designs. The work of 100 notable artists from around the globe is showcased in this definitive reference on a widespread and intriguing art practice.

Author : Terisa Green
Publisher : Berkley
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : 0451215141

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Ink by Terisa Green Pdf

An "exhaustive and indispensable guide to making the best possible choices when it comes to getting inked."--Cover.

Author : Trent Aitken-Smith
Publisher : Mitchell Beazley
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 1784729175

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The Tattoo Dictionary by Trent Aitken-Smith Pdf

An essential A-Z guide to the secret language of tattoos. Discover the true meanings behind over 200 popular tattoos with this comprehensive book, illustrated with over 100 tattoo designs. From sailors' swallows and Mexican skulls to prisoners' barbed wire and intricate Maori patterns, tattoos have been used as a means of communication by cultures all over the world for thousands of years. Through meticulous research, The Tattoo Dictionary uncovers the history of the most popular symbols in tattoo history, revealing their hidden meanings and the long-forgotten stories behind them in this beautifully packaged book.